Pharmacies, law practices, guesthouses, agrovet shops, driving schools, and NGO field stations across Kenya are the natural buyers here. A new commercial desktop with comparable specification sells for KSh 60,000 to KSh 80,000 in Nairobi, which stretches a budget badly when you need six or ten units at once. Buying cheap consumer towers instead carries its own cost, because plastic cases and non-standard power supplies fail inside two years. The HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF answers both problems at once: business-class hardware, standard replaceable parts, and a price that fits a starting office.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya who sell second-hand desktops without stating the processor variant or the drive type, Mascom International confirms every HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF leaving our store carries the AMD Ryzen PRO chip and boots cleanly before packing. Buyers throughout Kenya tell us the four-core, eight-thread processor keeps pace with QuickBooks, Sage Pastel, Tally Prime, KRA iTax filing, and 15 to 20 Chrome tabs running together. Walk in to Kimathi Street and switch on the HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF yourself, or order for pay-on-arrival delivery to any of Kenya's 47 counties.

At KSh 27,000 you are paying roughly a third of what a comparable new commercial tower costs in Nairobi. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G scores around 7,500 points in Cinebench R23 multi-core testing, which places it close to a new entry Core i3 desktop selling near KSh 55,000 locally. You also get a steel chassis, four memory slots, and three SATA connectors that budget consumer towers at this price never include. For a first office machine or a lab of ten, the value holds.

A used machine like this one is sold in the condition it arrived, after cleaning, testing, and a full boot check. Nothing has been rebuilt or reshelled. Refurbished units, by contrast, have had parts replaced by a certified workshop and are usually sold with a manufacturer or vendor certificate. Mascom International describes this HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF honestly as a carefully maintained import, lightly used internationally and never deployed locally in Kenya. You know exactly what sits inside before you pay.

The Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G runs four cores and eight threads at 3.7GHz base, rising to 4.2GHz on short bursts, with 6MB of cache. QuickBooks Desktop, Sage Pastel Partner, Tally Prime, and Sage 50 all run comfortably, including multi-user company files on a small office network. Month-end reports and VAT summaries generate without the pauses common on older dual-core machines. Browser-based work such as KRA iTax filing, eTIMS invoice uploads, and bank portals stays responsive alongside an open spreadsheet.

The 500GB drive spins at 7200RPM over a SATA 6Gb/s connection, which is fine for file storage but slower to boot than solid state. Expect Windows to start in 40 to 60 seconds. The HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF includes two internal M.2 slots, one running at PCIe x4, so adding a 256GB or 512GB NVMe drive costs roughly KSh 3,500 to KSh 7,000 in Nairobi. Move the operating system there and boot time drops under 15 seconds while the hard drive keeps your files.

8GB handles Microsoft Office, accounting packages, video calls, and 15 to 20 browser tabs without struggling. The HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF carries four DDR4 DIMM slots with only one filled, so you have three free. A second 8GB DDR4-2666 module sells for about KSh 3,000 to KSh 4,500 in Nairobi and pushes you to 16GB in dual channel, which also lifts the Vega graphics. Offices running heavy Excel models or virtual machines can go to 32GB using two 16GB modules.

Yes. Two DisplayPort 1.2 outputs sit on the rear panel as standard, and the Radeon Vega 11 graphics inside the Ryzen chip supports up to three displays at once, each capable of 3840x2160 at 60Hz. Accountants keeping Sage open on one screen and email on another, receptionists running a queue display, and lab supervisors watching two views all work off the integrated chip. A DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter, stocked at our Kimathi Street counter, connects older office monitors and televisions.

The internal 180W power supply uses active power factor correction and holds up to 92 percent efficiency, which tolerates the voltage swings common on Kenya's grid better than unbranded consumer units. Idle draw measures under 17W, so a 650VA to 1000VA UPS from APC, Mecer, or Lightwave gives you 10 to 20 minutes for a safe shutdown during an outage. That matters most for the mechanical hard drive, which dislikes sudden power cuts. Mascom International stocks matching UPS units at the same store.

Every HP EliteDesk 705 G5 SFF we sell is tested and boots before packing, and our team installs Windows 10 or Windows 11 on request at the Kimathi Street store. Licensing stays your choice: bring your own product key, use a volume licence your organisation already holds, or ask us to supply one. Schools and NGOs running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images can take the machine bare. Driver support from HP covers both Windows versions, and the TPM 2.0 chip satisfies the Windows 11 requirement.

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Each machine ships with the 6-month Mascom warranty stated above. Procurement officers needing VAT invoices, eTIMS documentation, or quotation letters for tender submissions should call ahead so paperwork is ready at collection.

Mascom International has built its name on accurate desktop specifications, current Kenyan pricing, and after-sales help you can reach in person.